High Performance Research Computing
HPC facilities
HPC accelerates data processing, thus expediting research. VU Amsterdam uses services like BAZIS, Lisa and Snellius.
High Performance Research Computing (HPC) is of increasing importance to the success, impact and productivity of research. For many disciplines, computing is either a sheer necessity, or offers an exciting opportunity to open up new avenues of research.
HPC training
If you need to perform many calculations or analyses that are too large for your own system, then clusters and supercomputers provide the necessary computing power. In this training you will get acquainted with parallel processing and machine learning, and work with the national Lisa computer cluster, the national supercomputer Snellius and HPC cloud.
In this course you will learn about tools and workflows that you can use in your research to manage big data and/or big computation tasks. The presentations and hands-on workshops are targeted at PhD-level students who would like to get started with HPC. Examples from daily practice will be used.
HPC-council
VU Amsterdam’s HPC council invites VU Amsterdam researchers to propose innovative ways to leverage research computing for improved scientific workflows by offering annual grants of up to EUR 10,000.
With these grants VU aims to unearth more research ideas and subsidise their implementation, thereby reducing development costs and time barriers in research computing.